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| Writing prompt: Is it better to be smart or strong?
The final sentence in Sean Kim's response: "Also, when we smart, the girl is come so I like it." | | |
| Come to think of it, a few days before my school showed up on the evening news for its unfortunate association with a drug dealer, I had a strange dream in which the new directors sent letters home to the kids' parents announcing that "Magnet School is hanging." Somehow, in my dream, I understood that they meant "closing," and that the poor word choice was the result of a translation error.
It seemed like such a stupid, inconsequential dream until Friday, when I found out that my school was almost closing.
Now I'm all unsettled because last night I had a dream that my boss made us all go on a week-long team-building retreat in Massachusetts. Please, God, don't let that happen. Or almost happen. | | |
| Andy--the loveable, buck-toothed know-it-all that I taught in first grade last semester--heard about the whole "the-guy-who-used-to-run-our-school-was-buying-large-quantities-of-drugs-from-American-gangs-and-selling-them-out-of-his-disgusting-apartment-in-Seoul" thing, and he relayed that information to his class thusly:
"Teacher, it is really, a teacher at Poly School drink a bad drink and die!"
Yeah, I taught that kid how to speak English. I'm doing a great job, apparently. But at least I did a very bad job teaching him about what drugs are. | | |
| the school where I teach is famous now. If you're like me, and you don't speak Korean, this is a story about how the former vice-director of my school--as in, the guy that I worked for up until last month--got busted for internationally trafficking narcotics. Well, and other stuff too. Cool, right? Notice how the background image at the beginning of that video is a picture of the school with photos of drug paraphernalia on top of it? Yeah, that's fair.
Unsurprisingly, the school library was filled with crazy, screaming mothers all morning. I'm not sure what they hoping to accomplish, seeing as how all of the people who could possibly be responsible have either been arrested, fled the country, or conveniently relocated to a different campus.
So, thanks, Paul from human resources, for sending me to the one campus in this company with a vice-director stupid enough to sell drugs in South Korea where that kind of thing is incredibly illegal and creates enormous public scandals capable of, say, completely sinking a private school campus and screwing over its teaching staff.
Not that that WILL happen. But, you know...
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